(v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
(v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
(a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Na+ ionophore, gramicidin, had a small but significant inhibitory effect on Na(+)-dependent KG uptake, demonstrating that KG uptake was not the result of an intravesicular positive Na+ diffusion potential.
(2) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(3) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(4) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
(5) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
(6) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
(7) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(8) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
(9) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(10) Diffuse Ga-67 uptake in the kidneys was seen due to renal involvement with this disorder.
(11) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
(12) The diffuse reaction product seen in basement membranes of ganglion and nerve may also be artifact.
(13) Here we determine the position of bound ADP diffused into the recA crystal.
(14) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
(15) Medium molecules have been detected by two methods, gel filtration and screening technique, in patients with diffuse purulent peritonitis and with chronic renal insufficiency.
(16) This may be because the epithelium restricts diffusion of the drug or due to the production of a non-prostanoid factor which inhibits smooth muscle responsiveness.
(17) Ten of 11 diffuse poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphomas were composed of cells with large amounts of surface immunoglobulin, whereas only 1 of 5 diffuse well differentiated lymphocytic tumors contained such abundant surface immunoglobulin.
(18) Thirty-six lesions imaged as vascular malformations with abnormal vessels or diffusely increased activity.
(19) We therefore conclude that the protective effect displayed by solid grafts might be a local process dependent on the release of diffusible trophic agents.
(20) These results demonstrate, in living human hearts, that diffuse coronary atherosclerosis is often present when coronary angiography reveals only discrete stenoses.
Interpenetrate
Definition:
(v. t.) To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.
(v. i.) To penetrate each the other; to penetrate between bodies or their parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adhesion mechanism of MS is quite different from that of interpenetration and polymerization of monomers.
(2) The investigation of the degree of interpenetration between the two component phases of whewellite kidney stones, the protein matrix and calcium oxalate monohydrate crystallites, is extended by a technique of microchemical analysis, employing X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
(3) The three concentric zones of the horse adrenal cortex (zonae glomerulosa, fasciculata and reticularis) showed marked interpenetration and exhibited a different relative development according to their position in the gland.
(4) In each concrete case these aspects interpenetrate and bear the mark of the culture in which they are observed.
(5) In the first series, n-butylmethacrylate (BMA) was copolymerized with NIPAAm, and in the second, polytetramethylene ether glycol (PTMEG) was incorporated into NIPAAm network as a chemically independent interpenetrating network.
(6) Calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals wee basically dipyramidal, a majority of them showing interpenetrant twinning.
(7) A relatively increased hydrophilicity of hydrophobicity of the interpenetrating polymer networks as in the case of polyurethane-polyvinyl pyrrolidone and polyurethane-poly(methyl methacrylate) interpenetrating polymer networks, respectively, could elicit an inert response whilst degradation of materials promoted reactivity.
(8) The boundary between tendon and muscle is sharp, without interpenetration of the two tissues.
(9) Official Russian opinion looks forward to “the interpenetration and integration of the EEU and the Silk Road Economic Belt” into a “Greater Eurasia”, which will afford a “steady developing safe common neighbourhood of Russia and China”.
(10) We show that the static and dynamic elastic moduli below a critical degree of shear strain are much higher than previously reported, consistent with extreme interpenetration, but that higher strain or treatment with very low concentrations of the F-actin severing protein gelsolin greatly diminish the moduli and cause F-actin to exhibit rheologic behavior expected for independent semidilute rods, and defined by the dimensions of the filaments, including shear rate independent viscosity below a critical shear rate.
(11) Surfaces of bone were modified in a controlled manner by grafting or by adding interpenetrating polymeric side chains to the bone substrate.
(12) This shows that lexical semantics and phrasal semantics interpenetrate deeply, and that there is no strict one-to-one correspondence between syntactic and semantic structures.
(13) Adipocytes of exaggerated size interpenetrate into micro- and later into macronodules marked off by more or less structured conjunctive fibrilla, thereby making treatment difficult.
(14) The mayor, who upstaged Gordon Brown at the London House reception at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when he said that "wiff waff" – his term for ping pong – would return to Britain, proffered Harry Potter as proof of "cultural interpenetration" between China and the UK.
(15) Key points in the discussion include the argument that systems theory is an inadequate explanatory matrix from which to build a theory of the family, that the archetypal "family case" of the overinvolved mother and peripheral father is best understood, not as a clinical problem, but as the product of a historical process two hundred years in the making, and that power relations between men and women in families function in terms of paradoxical, incongruous hierarchies that reflect the complex interpenetration between the structure of family relations and the world of work.
(16) The observation of the fractured surface after the tensile test and interface between precipitated MS and tooth indicated that the liner did not interpenetrate into the dentin through the immobilized MS on the tooth.
(17) Definition of this parameter is based on the model of a "viscosity-emulsion" composed of two interpenetrating liquid compartments which are characterized by different levels of hydrodynamic friction and the spatial dimensions of which are inferred from Ogston's theory.
(18) (6) From qualitative calculations of the van der Walls' hydrophobic interactions of the lipid species, the phospholipid condensing effect of cholesterol is postulated to arise from increased interpenetration of the flexible methylene segments of the acyl chains, as a direct result of their greater mutual attraction compared to their attraction for neighboring sterol molecules.
(19) That case continues, as does the investigation into allegations of the corrupt interpenetration of News International and the Metropolitan police.
(20) By using the composite structure of the natural material as a model a new family of hydrogels, based on interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) technology, has been developed.